The Liberal Democratic Party has ruled Japan in unbroken succession since Shinzo Abe’s landslide victory in 2012.
Former industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, known as a close aide to the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, visited the ...
Just over 80 years have passed since the end of World War II, and memories of the conflict are fading. Why was Japan unable ...
Japan’s former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for his historic apology over Japan’s wartime actions, has died ...
During her time in the U.S., Takaichi “worked briefly in Washington for Patricia Schroeder, a feminist congresswoman from the ...
Japan’s former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who was known for his 1995 “Murayama statement” apologizing to Asian victims ...
A Japanese court has sentenced to death a man who killed four people in a shooting and stabbing attack in 2023, rejecting the ...
Han Hak-ja is the leader of the Unification Church, a cult-like religious group also known as “the Moonies”, and the widow of ...
The new head of Japan’s ruling party Sanae Takaichi avoided visiting a controversial Tokyo war shrine today, as political ...
It took a long time, but we got there in the end. In August 2025, Japan’s Topix stock market index finally rose above its previous all-time high, last registered on the final trading day of 1989. It ...
On the 18th (local time), a "golf meeting" involving U.S. President Donald Trump and business representatives from South ...